Baldwin Aviation and Gray Stone Advisors Team to Offer Online Safety Management System ROI Calculator

“Both Gray Stone Advisors and Baldwin Aviation are committed to the health, growth and prosperity of the Business Aviation industry,” Lara explained. “Consistent with that focus, we are offering this tool for use. We believe the SMS ROI Calculator to be unique and hope that it is a ‘value add’ for flight operations and the aviation industry at large. We are constantly promoting the financial and operational paybacks that are byproducts of well-conceived and well-led Safety Management Systems, Practices and Philosophies. Of course, we welcome questions and requests for assistance pertaining to SMS’s as well as “The Business of Business Aviation,’” he concluded.

Gray Stone Advisors is a "hands-on, reality-based" business advisory firm that helps its clients achieve "next level" operating performance with sustainable results. Innovators of "The Seven Keys of Success in Business AviationTM," Gray Stone Advisors helps organizational leaders successfully leverage the forces of change. Drawing upon decades of operating and executive experience, Gray Stone Advisors guides the development of successful business practices at all levels of the organization. Business Aviation clients range from start-ups to Fortune 20 companies operating under FAR Part 91, 91K and 135.

Baldwin Aviation is comprised of a highly-experienced staff of experts who have combined their expertise to develop online, affordable Safety Management Systems (SMS) that are based on IS-BAO standards, the internationally recognized standard of safety. Headquartered in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Baldwin Aviation is the only IS-BAO registered SMS implementor, receiving certification in February 2007 and their renewal in January 2009. IS-BAO is a code of best practices which essentially structures ISO9000 principles to apply to aviation safety.